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National Debt and Public Education in Jamaica: "Glocal" Challenges and Responses
(2020-11-13)This dissertation is a transnational case study, designed to capture how structural adjustment and austerity have affected public primary schooling in Jamaica, and the response(s) of alumni associations in the Torontonian-Jamaican ... -
Managing Risk Environments: An Ethnographic Study of Club Drug Use and Harm Reduction in the EDM Scene
(2020-11-13)Electronic dance music (EDM) has been linked to illicit drug use, especially the use of ecstasy (MDMA), ketamine, cocaine, and GHB. These drugs are so common within the rave scene that they are often referred to collectively ... -
Young Carers in Canada: An Examination of the Prevalence, Policy and Practice of Young People Providing Unpaid Care
(2020-11-13)Despite the growing body of international research documenting the hidden lives of children and youth who provide substantial informal (unpaid) caregiving within their families, the Canadian literature continues to focus ... -
Writing for Digital News: The Social Organization of News Stories about HIV Criminalization in an Age of Convergence Journalism
(2020-08-11)This dissertation is an institutional ethnographic study of the social organization of news production about HIV criminalization in Canada. HIV criminalization is a global HIV activist concern. Broadly, HIV criminalization ... -
The Paradox of Refugee Protection in Canada: Law and Bureaucratic Politics of Efficiency
(2020-05-11)Over the course of the past few decades, access to refugee rights has been both expanded and restricted across the liberal democratic world. On the one hand, groups that previously had no ground for protection, such as ... -
Rohingyas in Bangladesh: Owning Rohingya Identity in Disowning Spaces
(2019-07-02)This dissertation focuses on Rohingya people, with a special emphasis on Rohingya youth and young adults, and how they construct their identities. While Rohingya ethnic identity is deeply rooted in Burma, it is influenced ... -
Autonomy, Identity and the Right to Die: A Qualitative Study of Medically Assisted Death Attitudes in the Canadian Context
(2019-07-02)In Canada, medically-assisted death has been legal since June 17th, 2016, when Bill C-14 received royal assent in the Canadian legislature. The legal proceedings around MAiD in Canada have been supported by non-governmental ... -
The Making and Reproduction of Male Working-Class Identity in a Mining Town
(2019-07-02)This dissertation is a study of working-class identity and subjectivity among a sample of male nickel miners in Sudbury, Ontario. Recent foreign takeovers of mining firms and a protracted strike at Vale-Inco in 2009-2010 ... -
From Revolution to Referendum: Processes of Institutionalization and Practices of Contestation in Post-Socialist Civil Society Building, 1989-2006
(2019-03-05)At the intersection of civil society studies and contentious politics research lies an opportunity to better understand the development of civil society through contentious practices. Drawing on a diverse body of work in ... -
On Alienation and Imperialism: Synthesizing the Work of Herbert Marcuse and Samir Amin
(2019-03-05)This dissertation builds on the idea that there is much to be gained by bringing Western Marxism and Marxist theories of imperialism into engagement with each other through synthesis of the work of two key figures: Herbert ... -
From Pain to Power: A Socio-Psychological Investigation of Anti-Racist Feminist Ressentiment
(2018-11-21)In recent years, identity-based movements have increasingly been criticized by outsiders for espousing a culture of outrage both in terms of their academic expressions and activist mobilizations. In the present study, I ... -
Temporalities of 'Return': Race, Representation and Decolonial Imaginings of Palestinian Refugee Life
(2018-08-27)This dissertation examines the representational life of return and asks: how has Israeli settler-colonialism and international rights discourse come to bear on political imaginings of return for third-generation Palestinian ... -
"Make Your Belly Dance": An Exploration of Feminism, Orientalism, and Embodiment in the Lived Experience of Belly Dance
(2018-08-27)Belly dance is a popular form of exotic dance in the West. Dancers, who are primarily White women, partake in weekly classes and perform at recitals and festivals. However, 2nd wave feminism argues that belly dancing ... -
Drone Warfare and the Governing of Sacrifice
(2018-05-28)In this dissertation, I argue that drone warfare suggests a style of violence that always-already transcends the vulnerabilities of the citizen-soldier, burdening the relationship of citizen soldiering to sacrificial cults ... -
In the Hands of Strangers: The Myth of Choice and Self-Determination for Chronic Pain Patients in Ontario
(2018-05-28)This study aimed to better understand and explain the lived experience of chronic pain patients within Ontario primary health care settings, their perceptions of self-determination, and the impact on their capacity to ... -
The Struggle for Security: Risk, Politics and Pension Policy in Ontario, 1960-2016
(2017-07-27)This dissertation traces the rise and decline of Ontarios workplace pension system that has resulted with growing emphasis on Canadas public pension system, focusing on the postwar period to 2016. Since the mid-1980s, ... -
Imagining the Unimaginable: Psychopathy, (Un)Criminality and the Body
(2017-07-27)Many scholars have noted that representations of crime and criminality cannot be divorced from considerations of power relations, especially in the way that they often reproduce derogatory and stereotypical images of ... -
Lighten up: Exploring Skin Lightening Practices among Canadian South Asian Woman
(2017-07-27)This thesis examines how and why South Asian women decide to engage in the beauty practice of skin lightening within Canada. Skin lightening involves the use of products, treatments and procedures to lighten, whiten and ... -
Recovering Richard Rorty's Sense of Experience
(2017-07-27)In this dissertation I critically examine Richard Rortys dismissal of the concept of experience following the linguistic turn. I challenge Rortys belief that all appeals to experience imply foundationalism and that we ... -
"I Had a Lot More Faith in Doctors Back Then:" An Analysis of Chronic Pain Content in Ontario Medical Curricula
(2017-07-27)This study is an assessment of pain content in three undergraduate medical curricula in Ontario. While chronic pain is a notoriously common condition affecting one in five Canadians, persistent pain remains undertreated ...
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